Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people made it their day. After dawn half a million thronged the green expanse of the Grand Vista and parkways near the Government buildings of New Delhi. Wherever Lord and Lady Mountbatten went that day, their open carriage, drawn by six bay horses, was beset by happy, cheering Indians who swept aside police lines. A Briton received a popular ovation rarely given even to an Indian leader. "Mountbattenji ki jai [Victory to Mountbatten]," they roared, adding the affectionate and respectful suffix "ji" usually reserved for popular Indian leaders...
...Mize of the Babe's record: "I've never broken it and I don't know why I would this year." Walker Cooper admits that the Giants are likely to beat the team record this year-but, he adds, "it's up to the rest. Lord knows...
...dozen of local businessmen stockholders. But after a close look at Publisher Howard Parish's records he backed away; they showed that the Star was losing over $700 a day. Stern had planned to take over the option of Sheldon Sackett, an over-extended Northwest press lord. On July 31 the option lapsed, but Stern kept on dickering...
...editors of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express, the six-month trial run of Steve Canyon had been quite a trial. Steve had been a problem to the 3,870,000 readers of the Express, too. Milton Caniff's comic-strip airline operator was a likable enough chap, but how was one to understand him without a pony? Even to inveterate followers of the U.S. cinema, such terms as "leg it," "front boy," "Hood" and "gee" were hard to translate. Express editors, who have had to doctor much of the Canyon dialogue for British readers, were nonplussed...
...Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Forty-seven has witnessed the return and triumph of Gamalielese conservatism in American domestic politics. But thanks to a bipartisan foreign policy this swing to the right has not yet produced a noticeable withdrawal from the international arena. Isolationism and pacifism are still discredited, and the United States seems conscious of its responsibilities as a "super-power" even if sometimes confused in their execution...